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Your on about Newcastle - Sheffield but people use those services because they are quicker for travel towards Birmingham, I know from actually seeing the numbers that travel on these services.

As someone who works these services your figures are totally wrong, most if not all Newcastle starters are well loaded beyond Derby and have seen last one north 1E64 heavily loaded from Derby all the way back to Newcastle with more than a hundred still on when terminated.

As has been said many times on this forum ASLEF policy is to have Sundays in the working work but it has been cheaper for companies to not bring Sundays inside due to the uplift in driver numbers it would take to bring in. No knowledge of links at Birmingham so don’t know if they are running...

No you don’t get to wish to only do a 35 hr week you work to your link line which yes maybe less than 35 hrs but is supposed to average out at 35hrs as that is what we are paid for. 1741036621 Yes, over the link it averages at 35 hrs, with your committed Sundays on top.

In 23 years I have only known of maybe 4 occasions where a driver at my depot has not turned in for a booked Sunday, they get a sit down with the DTM.

No you work your link hours for that specific week which could entail 4 days of 9hr 50 diagrams

Sundays are committed, you can ask for it off and if it can be covered by a spare you will be granted it off or you can get someone else to work it for you or as I said before if it’s a middle Sunday of 2 weeks annual leave or the Sunday before or after a week of annual leave you can have that...

Drivers have an average 35 hr week through their roster, min day is 5hrs max rostered day is 10 hrs

XC drivers have committed Sundays, depot establishments should be able to cover Sundays but there are always times when you may have a number of drivers who are on a booked Sunday but are sick, on rostered annual leave (middle Sunday of 2 weeks leave always booked off and Sunday before or after...

50mph applied from 11.48, XC 1G37 advised by signaller before leaving York. Arrived Newcastle 100 mins late after OHL probs at Aycliffe and waiting services running simbids over down line. People should listen when DO NOT TRAVEL is issued.

I don’t have any experience of them so can’t say but Voyagers used to be even quicker but had their engines down rated many years ago

Roughly 6mins / 8 miles. Some sets better than others also gradients can affect time.

Chesterfield is 9X for XC voyagers

Believe it is coach H which is in effect coach B of the second set

It’s been coach B and H if 10 cars for years, coach F and L were also used during or just after Covid but that changed last year

There are a couple of ways links at XC are done, at my depot we have the same as you state with a rolling pattern, at all Saturdays are part of the roster (really find it strange that anyone thinks it’s not) Sundays are committed meaning you are required to work unless you can get it covered by...

It will be down to money, dft would be paying extra costs (leasing, fuel etc)

Both portions were fully braked but had to be done under rescue and recovery, which means converting rescue set to use standard two pipe air brakes rather than the normal electric brake. This results in a max speed of 60mph and a much slower brake application throughout the train.

Train terminated about 15.30 at Newcastle 1735640296 Rescued set then went forward as 5Z99, 60mph max as under rescue and recovery but set 10 was running on 3 engines so could only go to Tyne yard

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